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“I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
― The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952
― The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952
“Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
Who would we be if we could not sympathize with those who are not us or ours? Who would we be if we could not forget ourselves, at least some of the time? Who would we be if we could not learn? Forgive? Become something other than we are?”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
Who would we be if we could not sympathize with those who are not us or ours? Who would we be if we could not forget ourselves, at least some of the time? Who would we be if we could not learn? Forgive? Become something other than we are?”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”
― Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
― Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
“No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Red Sorghum
― Red Sorghum
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